The Importance of Shoes

Are you a shoe person or a purse person? It's very sad but true, shoes and purses are my guilty pleasures. It's comforting to know, however, I'm not the only woman who possesses such obsession. In fact, it's probably quite normal for our population, except for a few outstanding individuals I know and admire, who have unsurpassed self discipline and self control to disregard material things. I continue to strive to become one of those exceptional people.

I try hard to reject the temptation of those things, but in my weaker moments, finding good pairs of shoes and a nice purse brighten my day. Until the next good find comes along, which haunts me at night.

Creepy Things

#1 The two Tans
Jack's 3rd Ave. kiteboarding webcam was down for close to half a year now, because someone dropped it when moving it. As the kiteboarding season started this year, more and more people were noticing the absence of the webcam, and emails inquiries came to Jack's mailbox.

One day Jack told me Tan offered to donate his home computer to host the webcam server, so we wouldn't have to rely on the company hosting the webcam. Jack refused it a few times, because the hosting server was not the root cause of the problem. Jack just needed to get the webcam fixed and get it back on line. After a few times of unsuccessful engagement and many technical suggestions, Tan stopped emailing Jack with further offerings. Both Jack and I were quite amazed what a persistent person our friend Tan was.

Last week Jack came home and told me, "this guy walked up to me and said: it's good to finally meet you." It turned out it was the Tan who was emailing Jack, who was a different guy from our friend Tan.

#2 Confused about the singer
Finding out my favorite love song from high school was sung by a man rather than a woman.

#3 Are you alright?
One day I found Jack in the bed room lying on his belly. I was startled thinking he was fainting.

I screamed: "Are you alright?"

He looked up and said, "yes, I'm fine."

It turned out he was trying to deflate an inflated globe, and he was lying on it to squeeze the last bit of the air out of it.

What Happened in the Car

One day Jack and I drove to 3rd Ave. I was holding a coffee, because there was no cup holder available in the car. As we talked, I made all kinds of hand gestures as my usual animated self.

At the red light, I turned to look into the blue truck next to us, and the driver was also looking at me. I looked away as Jack and I were still talking about an exciting topic. All of a sudden I lost grip of my coffee and it almost flew out of my hands. I spilled coffee all over me. In a hurry, I wiped myself and from the seat belt. I turned to look at the guy in the blue truck again, he was looking straight ahead, bouncing his head with the music from his radio, while shaving his mustache with an electric razor in a nonchalant kind of way.

Just the other day in the car, I saw the driver of an SUV pouring coffee from one Starbucks cup to another.

You'll be surprise what you found people doing in the car nowadays, and it is ever so amusing.